First off, I came to this game with an advantage, emotionally speaking. I am the younger of two brothers. My family is not that far removed from the family in the game, Brothers. My dad died when I was 19, far older than the age the younger brother appears to be when his mom dies, but trust me, at any age, a parent dying is never easy. There are a lot of things about Brothers that have stuck wi...
Week 2 in my journey down the rabbit hole of learning how to code has come and gone. I said in last week's blog post that I'm pretty much starting from scratch, but I feel like in this shot amount of time I've pretty much got a handle on the Lua scripting language. That's not to say, however, that I know much about actually making games. I've plugged a few memory leaks, though they're still the...
Let me start by saying this: At this point last week, I knew next to nothing about coding and scripting a video game. I had toyed around with BASIC when I was a kid, like I think we all did but never really got too far with that. I made a few stupid flash games, but again, never anything serious. This past Saturday though, I thought I might try to make something in earnest. I downloaded the Uni...